Sermon Archive (Page 23)

Here you can read and hear recent sermons from our church.

“Christmas Future”

Matthew 1:18-25 {Prayer}             One of the greatest basketball players of all time once said, “You miss 100% of the shots you never take.”  If Michael Jordan never shot the basketball as a kid, if he didn’t spend countless hours practicing his basketball skills … he would just be a normal person.  However, Jordan worked…

“Hope”

Micah 7:18-20 {Prayer}             It was the summer of 1820 and ten-year-old Phineas was about see the island, his island.  You see the day he was born his grandfather presented Phineas with a deed, a deed to some land in Connecticut called Ivy Island.  And for the first time, Phineas was going to see and…

“Christmas Present”

Philippians 2:5-11 {Prayer}             I want to ask you a question … is there a difference between joy and happiness?  Are sure?             Let’s look at the definitions of these two words.  Joy is “A feeling of great pleasure and happiness.”  Happiness is “the State of being happy.”  When you look in a Thesaurus ……

“Forever”

Micah 4:1-5 {Prayer} Two years, before his untimely death, the Los Angeles Lakers retired both of Kobe Bryant’s numbers … number eight and number twenty-four.  At the event, an ESPN announcer said, “They will hang in the Staples Center forever.”  Uh, no, they won’t.  Kobe’s numbers won’t hang there forever because in a sports world…

Christmas Past

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens has become a well-known story throughout the world.  Originally published on December 19, 1843 in England, the story has come to life in many different renditions over the years. As we go through our Family Midweek Advent Series, we are going to take this beloved classic and look at…

“The Advent of Our God”

Micah 1:1-4 {Prayer}             John Glenn learned how to fly fighter jets as he completed 59 missions in World War II and 90 missions in the Korean War.  John Glenn learned to fly fast as he was the first pilot to fly at supersonic speed.  John Glenn learned how to fly into outer space.  In…

Thankfulness in Hard Times

Deuteronomy 8:1-10 {Prayer} When everything is going along great, it’s easy to just keep on going and act as if nothing could possibly go wrong.  Listen to this story I found as I was working on this sermon. Among the thrilling stories told in connection with the search of gold in the Klondike, in the…

“What a Revelation!”

Revelation 5:1-14 {Prayer}             When you hear of heaven, what do you think of?  Clouds, chubby little cherub angels flying around with cute bow and arrows?  Maybe brilliant colors far richer than anything found on earth?              Where do we get these ideas of what heaven will be like?  For most people, their ideas come…